Qwerty the fish

waiting for elliot to give me a bigger bowl

[Jash Dholani @oldbooksguy]

Chesterfield told his son in a 1754 letter that laziness is suicide by proxy, because by killing time you're killing yourself. Dark but true

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Trump initial reaction to 9/11 was to claim that he now owned the tallest building in downtown Manhattan.

[Nornal Guy 🧙‍♂️ @theralkia]

When you trigger people, you give them an opportunity to become more conscious. You are offering them spiritual and psychological elevation in the form of a sour pill. The day I stopped worrying about being “too much” around my family and friends is the day they started shifting too.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Donald Trump has said to ‘cheat like hell’ and vote whether they're ‘registered or not’ in November's midterm elections, per Reuters

[Riley Coyote @RileyRalmuto]

this is one of the greatest, most profound monolgues ive ever witnessed in the middle of a casual conversation about psychedelics and hippies.

its so unbelievably good. I love Jesse so much, man.

[joanna schroeder @iproposethis]

Seven years ago I pissed off a lot of people, made serious enemies of dangerous people, and was eventually exposed as being 100% correct.

[NIK @ns123abc]

BREAKING: Anthropic threat intelligence team published a report on everyone misusing Claude

"We believe we have a responsibility to disclose misuse of our services"

It’s insane, everybody should read it:

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

Terence Tao continues to bring the🔥, day after day!

[The Food Manufacturing Guy @TipOfTheBanana]

A lot of the fruit at the store has been told not to ripen.

There's a gas called 1-MCP. It bonds to the same receptor a fruit uses to sense ethylene, its own ripening hormone, and blocks it. Growers seal the storage room, release the gas, and leave the doors shut for 24 hours. Pears, kiwis, avocados, bananas, tomatoes, melons, peaches, plums, nectarines, apricots.

EPA approved it in 2002 and exempted it from residue limits because it leaves nothing detectable behind. It never appears anywhere on a label.

That's why a pear can sit green in a box for weeks, ship across the country, and still be rock hard when you buy it.

[The Food Manufacturing Guy @TipOfTheBanana]

Honey. Salt. Sugar. White rice. Dried beans. Vinegar. Anything over 40 proof.

Brown rice has natural oils and will spoil.

[Financelot @FinanceLancelot]

BREAKING: Trump says he will give every adult citizen $5,000 if GOP wins the midterms

Idiocracy was so far ahead of its time 🤣

[Valerio Capraro @ValerioCapraro]

BREAKING: OpenAI might have stolen another major proof.

In a detailed Mastodon post, which I report in full in the comments, Andreas Thom presents several pieces of evidence suggesting that OpenAI may have trained Astra on conversations in which he and Gábor Kun were working on Gromov’s soficity conjecture, one of the ten problems OpenAI later announced Astra had solved.

I know Andreas. We met several times early in our careers. He is an exceptional mathematician, a leading expert on sofic and hyperlinear groups, and one of the most respected scholars in the field. He has spent two decades working on this problem.

If his account is correct, this is not a minor dispute over attribution. It would mean that unpublished human work was absorbed into a model and then presented to the world as a breakthrough by the model itself.

And if the allegations raised by Levent Alpöge, Tristan Buckmaster, and now Andreas Thom are all substantiated, we are no longer looking at isolated incidents.

We may be looking at one of the greatest intellectual scandals in the history of science.

AI is not discovering new mathematics.

AI is stealing human discovery.

[Speak Truth & Raise Hell @SpeakTruthAndRH]

Flock camera wrongly tells cops newly bought car has no insurance. Young girl is pulled over, shows proof of insurance -- cop writes the ticket anyway, stating flock camera says otherwise.

[John McCormack @McCormackJohn]

The Republican governor of Wyoming and local election officials were surprised last month when federal agents showed up at the polls on the day of the state’s primary elections and began to confront poll workers in what local officials described as an inappropriate, unlawful, and aggressive manner.

According to poll workers, two Department of Justice officials wanted to examine voting machines and interview voters at the polls. The DOJ officials backed down after a poll worker, who happened to be a former assistant dean of a law school, rejected their requests.

"Having the heavy hand of Washington—even the appearance of the heavy hand of Washington—somehow interfering or meddling in the election process is something I think every American should be concerned about," Wyoming governor Mark Gordon told @thedispatch.

Does the incident tell us anything about what might happen in November?

My latest @thedispatch: https://t.co/KWgeFZVtjk

[????? @_IAmGOAT]

My therapist said: Legitimately self-compassion is the biggest mental health life hack of all time. I'm NOT talking about self-esteem. You do NOT have to like yourself one bit. You don't have to believe that you're a good person who deserves good things. You just have to

[John Schindler @20committee]

No big but Elaine Chao AKA Zhao Xiaolan AKA Mrs Mitch McConnell, was working for the UFWD -- that's the CCP's global influence ops shop, adjacent to the MSS -- while she served in the Cabinet for 2 GOP presidents. Seems important.

https://t.co/Pst054wqew

[Saagar Enjeti @esaagar]

A systematic review of counties with data centers found:
- No increase in overall financial health
- No increase in local employment or new business formation
- local gov borrowing cost increased
- Housing price growth slows
- Schools end up squeezing more from property tax

[Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) @antoniogm]

As Von Neumann said about Oppenheimer’s performative angst over the atomic bomb:

“Some people profess guilt to claim credit for the sin.”

[The Washington Times @WashTimes]

REPORT: Chinese government and United Front-linked organizations named Elaine Chao, the wife of Sen. Mitch McConnell, to several advisory and honorary positions that overlapped with her U.S. Cabinet service. https://t.co/5yCihQA5H2

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

Video shows Flock walking police through how to monitor a No Kings protest in real time. I do not have to agree with a single sign at that protest to say this plainly: Surveillance aimed at your political opponents today will be aimed at you tomorrow.